The origin and development of the moral ideas

by Edward Westermarck

[98] Isaeus, Oratio de Pyrrhi hereditate, 51, p. 43.

[99] Aristotle, Politica, ii. 9, p. 1270 a.

[100] Laboulaye, Recherches sur la condition civile et politique des femmes, p. 38 sq. Ginoulhiac, Histoire du régime dotal, p. 66. Meier and Schömann, op. cit. p. 513 sq.

[101] Ginoulhiac, op. cit. p. 103.

[102] For dos necessaria in Germany during the Middle Ages, see Mittermaier, Grundsätze des gemeinen deutschen Privatrechts, ii. 3.

[103] Eccius, in von Holtzendorff, Encyclopädie der Rechtswissenschaft, ii. 414.

[104] Code Napoléon, art. 204.

[105] See Maine, Early History of Institutions, p. 339.

[106] Sutherland, Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct, i. 243.

Whilst most of the lower animal species are by instinct either monogamous or polygynous, with man every possible form of marriage occurs. There are marriages of one man with one woman (monogamy), of one man with many women (polygyny), of many men with one woman (polyandry), and, in a few exceptional cases, of many men with many women.[107]